Top 100 The Shadows Quotes
#1. Ben tasted like wine; felt animal beneath her hands; chased away the shadows until her room was only darkness, only them, nothing wicked.
Lauren Gilley
#2. Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. When Nick leaves our room, he leaves behind a dark thunder cloud. He has carried the shadow with him for so long that it has become a part of him and has settled in the shadows of the room.
Mariko Nagai
#5. For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.
Chang-rae Lee
#6. If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.
C. JoyBell C.
#7. Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles.
Theodor Storm
#8. believed it was better to assume the burden of leadership than to drift along in the shadows.
Robert M. Edsel
#9. A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.
Rembrandt
#10. The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They're lost in the shadows of the moon.
Laura Kreitzer
#11. It only wakes up the burning desire I always feel whenever I'm close to this man and the shadows of my fears back away. - Skye
Stephanie Witter
#12. If we want to avoid the disaster of one-world-government, if we wish to preserve our priceless national sovereignty and live through all time as free men, then it is imperative that the American people read The Shadows of Power.
Meldrim Thomson Jr.
#13. A boy who'd thrived in the shadows.
Now he had to live in the light.
To live . . . fiercely.
To fight for every breath.
Renee Ahdieh
#14. He needed to crawl inside of her, share her skin, bury himself deep so she could pour the sun over him and steer him away from the shadows always clawing pieces out of him.
Christine Feehan
#15. Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.
Steve Israel
#16. Life was fragile, and the shadows left behind touched those who came after. Hooves
Kristen Heitzmann
#17. Soul Born is not about good and evil, it's about the shadows that lie in-between.
Kevin James Breaux
#18. I spent too long in the shadows ... I'm looking forward to being in the light with you.
Sylvain Reynard
#19. Sunsets require sunshine ["Surveillance: Out of the Shadows," New York Review of Books, June 2, 2015].
David Cole
#20. But intelligence officers never really retire, they just slip into the shadows.
Stieg Larsson
#21. My years in the shadows have taught me many things. Who carries the most money, who won't notice you, and what liars look like
Victoria Aveyard
#23. Yet here, this night, you might repose with me, On green leaves pillowed: apples ripe have I, Soft chestnuts, and of curdled milk enow. And, see, the farm-roof chimneys smoke afar, And from the hills the shadows lengthening fall!
Virgil
#24. I would never be happy with just coming to TV tapings, not working house shows, and just getting by, staying in the shadows. I'm proud of the fact that I can turn chickenshit to chicken salad.
CM Punk
#25. It was not full dark where I lay; the fire kept the worst of the shadows at bay. Curiously,
Christine Pope
#26. The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.
Carlos Castaneda
#28. Kneel!" he ordered.
My head raised in defiance, I stepped forward. "I am Princess Andrea de Montemaior. I will kneel to no one," I said to the shadows inside.
Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban
#30. Her father would have said the shadows were about their own business tonight. Something bad was going to happen here.
Leigh Bardugo
#31. Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#32. I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
L. Ron Hubbard
#33. What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
Boyd K. Packer
#34. Because what else was there for me - an aberration, an untouchable, an outsider? What could I say when I was alone at night and the shadows came? How else could I calm the thud of my beating heart but with the words: This is my fate.
Leslye Walton
#35. The person of yesterday is in the shadows of the past.
Lisa C. Miller
#37. The shadows come to dance my lord, dance my lord, dance my lord. The shadows come to stay my lord, stay my lord, stay my lord ...
George R R Martin
#38. It was the kind of barbarously sticky American afternoon that made me yearn for the shadows cast by scooting summer clouds in northern Europe ...
Joseph O'Neill
#39. I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.
Joe Biden
#40. Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.
Chuck Palahniuk
#42. The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#43. I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Martha Beck
#44. But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
Armistead Maupin
#45. Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.
John Ruskin
#46. Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.
Louise Penny
#47. The witchlight cut into the shadows that seemed to hang in the room like a living thing. Emma wondered how big the cave really was, and how much of it was a shifting illusion.
Cassandra Clare
#48. The winter night blew in with frosty wind, and the street lamps with their sputtering carbons swung restlessly and made the shadows dart back and forth like a runner trying to steal second base.
John Steinbeck
#49. I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.
Roger Zelazny
#50. Look around," Jacob said. "You're right, the shadows are getting longer, but, look at the light too. Look at what's happening to the light. Shadows are dark, always dark, even when they leak out across the grass into the street. But what's happened to the light?
Schuy R. Weishaar
#51. As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.
John Ridley
#52. It wore him down, knowing how small he was ...
how insignificant he was to the things in the shadows ...
it wore him down until there was so little left in him ...
that he almost forgot who he really was.
Ed Brubaker
#53. Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. It was I who stayed awake wrestling with the shadows on the ceiling and the taunting of the grandfather clock
Nina G. Jones
#56. Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Through the broken casements we watch the flitting shadows of the dead, and the saddest shadows of them all are the shadows of our own dead selves.
Jerome K. Jerome
#57. You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,
Fredrik Backman
#58. Secrets are dark things. They don't exist in the light. They
glow faintly in forgotten corners, in mysterious mind-nooks,
in lost memory maps. Secrets are the shadows of the soul.
Sukanya Venkatraghavan
#59. According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker.
- The World And The Door
O. Henry
#60. The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers' eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
Charles Dickens
#61. Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.
Joseph Girzone
#62. The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.
Bianca Scardoni
#63. I learned that man lives differently, depending on whether he is in a horizontal or vertical position. The shadows on the walls, on the faces, are not the same.
Elie Wiesel
#64. There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.
Louis L'Amour
#66. Be less the general and more a father. Hold her close at night and chase the shadows away.
Laura Frantz
#67. I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
Giovanni Giocondo
#68. The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction.
Anonymous
#69. A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster
Mark Knopfler
#70. The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. There's nothing left worth saying.
Isaac Marion
#71. I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here.
Alexandra Bracken
#72. When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.
Lynn Flewelling
#73. She saw the shadows of her children, young again, playing on that tree. And now to be here with him. You cross your own path.
Penelope Lively
#74. Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.
Jurgen Moltmann
#75. The Wolf gave me an eerie smile, all fangs, and his eyes glinted in the shadows. " I will be in this tale one way or another, little prince," he warned.
(The Iron Knight)
Julie Kagawa
#76. Love died in the shadows, and it shouldn't cost so much to keep it in the sun. But as Trent would say, anything gotten cheap wouldn't last, so do what you need to do to be happy and deal with the consequences. That if love was easy, everyone would find it.
Kim Harrison
#77. How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.
Neal Shusterman
#78. It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.
Peter Baynham
#79. Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.
Muhammad Yunus
#80. Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
Pascal Mercier
#81. What's looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.
Lierre Keith
#82. She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.
Megan Whalen Turner
#83. I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
Johannes Kepler
#84. The skies were overcast. As the carriage rumbled along, Rafe watched the shadows weave in and out, dance over and around her as she gazed out the window. And blast it all if he didn't envy their ability to touch her so lightly.
Lorraine Heath
#85. You destroy buildings, fight monsters openly in the streets of the city, work with the police, show up in newspapers, advertise in the phone book, and ride zombie dinosaurs down Michigan Avenue, and think that you work in the shadows? Be reasonable.
Jim Butcher
#86. She smiled at me with such merriment of recognition, and such a yearning to be recognised in return, that you would think this was a moment granted to her when she was let out of the shadows for one day in a thousand.
Alice Munro
#87. Living in the shadows is cold... know this before you go living there.
Deyth Banger
#88. That's all childhood is, after all: strong arms to hold back the dark, a story to keep the shadows dancing, and a candle to mark the long journey into day.
Seanan McGuire
#89. Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne
#90. Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life ... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.
Charles Dickens
#91. Now, back in the reality that always lies in wait among the shadows of the Ensanche quarter, the enchantment was lifting, and all I had was painful desire and an indescribable restlessness.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#92. You're not only the spotlight in which you perform, but the shadows where you practice.
Debby Ryan
#93. You're my sunshine, my rain and my evening stars I feel as though I was living in the shadows and you have entered my life in a blaze of color and light which as illuminated my very existence.
Marie Coulson
#94. You accept that the shadows on the wall are real, love. I have no idea how to make you turn around and see the light.
Marie Sexton
#95. This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep.
Richard Bunning
#96. No one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams. You will go,
we will go together, over the waters of time.
No one else will travel through the shadows with me,
only you, evergreen, ever sun, ever moon.
Pablo Neruda
#97. Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.
Margaret Atwood
#99. He was always inclined to read a fictitious sombreness into things when the shadows began to creep over the world and it was still too early for a cocktail.
P.G. Wodehouse
#100. The words were still in his hearing as just spoken - distinctly in his hearing as ever spoken words had been in his life - when the weary passenger started to the consciousness of daylight, and found that the shadows of the night were gone.
Charles Dickens
